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The overwhelming amount of rubbish on Australian beaches is plastic.
A UNSW-led study based on one of the largest marine debris databases in the Southern Hemisphere found plastic comprises 84 per cent of all rubbish littering Australian beaches.
More than 2000 organisations and 150,000 citizen scientists participated in the Australian Marine Debris Initiative by collecting and sorting marine debris for the Tangaroa Blue Foundation, which is dedicated to the removal and prevention of marine debris.
A new study has revealed 84 per cent of all rubbish littering Australian beaches is plastic (pictured, Port Botany shoreline)
The study analysed 10 years of the AMDI database to create a national map of patterns in marine debris.
It found that almost half of all debris was from litter dumped on land and seven per cent from dumping at sea.
But 42 per cent of
